Set Padding For Uitextfield With Uitextborderstylenone

Set padding for UITextField with UITextBorderStyleNone

I found a neat little hack to set the left padding for this exact situation.

Basically, you set the leftView property of the UITextField to be an empty view of the size of the padding you want:

UIView *paddingView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 5, 20)];
textField.leftView = paddingView;
textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

Worked like a charm for me!

In Swift 3/ Swift 4, it can be done by doing that

let paddingView: UIView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 5, height: 20))
textField.leftView = paddingView
textField.leftViewMode = .always

Adding top padding to UITextField

Use a customTextField class

class CustomTextField: UITextField {

    let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 15, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0);

    override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }

    override func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }

    override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }
}

Swift 4 version, as per Micah's answer below:

class CustomTextField: UITextField {

    let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 15, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0);

    override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.inset(by: padding)
    }

    override func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.inset(by: padding)
    }

    override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.inset(by: padding)
    }
}

Set padding for UITextField with UITextBorderStyleNone

I found a neat little hack to set the left padding for this exact situation.

Basically, you set the leftView property of the UITextField to be an empty view of the size of the padding you want:

UIView *paddingView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 5, 20)];
textField.leftView = paddingView;
textField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways;

Worked like a charm for me!

In Swift 3/ Swift 4, it can be done by doing that

let paddingView: UIView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 5, height: 20))
textField.leftView = paddingView
textField.leftViewMode = .always

How do you create textfield padding in Swift 4?

As @the4kman says, Swift does support CGRect but the syntax may have changed.

You can try this for instance:

@IBOutlet weak var nameTextField: UITextField! {
    didSet {
        nameTextField.layer.cornerRadius =  5
        nameTextField.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        nameTextField.layer.borderWidth = 1
        let leftView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 100.0, height: 2.0))
        nameTextField.leftView = leftView
        nameTextField.leftViewMode = .always
    }
}

If I do that, I get this fine result

Hope that helps.

Update

You ask for a function instead of setting it in didSet and sure, thats possible, something like:

func addPaddingAndBorder(to textfield: UITextField) {
    textfield.layer.cornerRadius =  5
    textfield.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
    textfield.layer.borderWidth = 1
    let leftView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 100.0, height: 2.0))
    textfield.leftView = leftView
    textfield.leftViewMode = .always
}

and then you' call that in viewDidLoad for instance like so:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    addPaddingAndBorder(to: nameTextField)
}

How to give padding to UITextField in iOS?

You can create a Category of UITextFiled like following code:

.H class

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UITextField (Textpadding)


-(CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds;
-(CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds;
@end

.M class

#import "UITextField+Textpadding.h"

@implementation UITextField (Textpadding)
#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wobjc-protocol-method-implementation"
-(CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {



    return CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x+20 , bounds.origin.y ,
                      bounds.size.width , bounds.size.height-2 );
}
-(CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    return [self textRectForBounds:bounds];
}

This category will setting your all text-filed padding by default at run time.

How to create Category

• Press cmd+n for new class create and select Objective-c class.

• Then select Category like following.

• Set Class name.

• Set file name.

That's it now do code in this class as my answer.

UITextField padding

You need to make changes in your function, just set frame of imageView and set paddingView's X position to 0

func setLeftView(imageView: UIImageView, withPadding padding: CGFloat) {

let height = imageView.frame.height
let width = imageView.frame.width + padding

// Set  x position to 0
let paddingView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height))

/// You need to set frame of imageView so put this line
imageView.frame = CGRect(x: padding, y: 0, width: imageView.frame.width, height: height)

paddingView.addSubview(imageView)
self.leftView = paddingView
self.leftViewMode = .always
}

Create space at the beginning of a UITextField

This is what I am using right now:

Swift 4.2

class TextField: UITextField {

    let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 5)

    override open func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.inset(by: padding)
    }

    override open func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.inset(by: padding)
    }

    override open func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.inset(by: padding)
    }
}

Swift 4

class TextField: UITextField {

    let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 5)

    override open func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }

    override open func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }

    override open func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }
}

Swift 3:

class TextField: UITextField {

    let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 5)

    override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }

    override func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }

    override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
    }
}

I never set a other padding but you can tweak. This class doesn't take care of the rightView and leftView on the textfield. If you want that to be handle correctly you can use something like (example in objc and I only needed the rightView:

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    CGRect paddedRect = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, self.insets);

    if (self.rightViewMode == UITextFieldViewModeAlways || self.rightViewMode == UITextFieldViewModeUnlessEditing) {
        return [self adjustRectWithWidthRightView:paddedRect];
    }
    return paddedRect;
}

- (CGRect)placeholderRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    CGRect paddedRect = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, self.insets);

    if (self.rightViewMode == UITextFieldViewModeAlways || self.rightViewMode == UITextFieldViewModeUnlessEditing) {
        return [self adjustRectWithWidthRightView:paddedRect];
    }
    return paddedRect;
}

- (CGRect)editingRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
    CGRect paddedRect = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, self.insets);

    if (self.rightViewMode == UITextFieldViewModeAlways || self.rightViewMode == UITextFieldViewModeWhileEditing) {
        return [self adjustRectWithWidthRightView:paddedRect];
    }
    return paddedRect;
}

- (CGRect)adjustRectWithWidthRightView:(CGRect)bounds {
    CGRect paddedRect = bounds;
    paddedRect.size.width -= CGRectGetWidth(self.rightView.frame);

    return paddedRect;
}

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